Red Herring

01/06/2010
31/08/2010
Stéfanie Bourne

Red Herring

Red Herring is used to describe something that provides
a false or misleading clue, often in a detective story.
Albert Jack: Red Herring and White Elephants

Stefanie Bourne came to Huntly from Brittany, France, in the Summer of 2010.
 
The knock-on effect of what we eat and how it reaches us has many financial and ethical implications. Every day we make decisions about which products we buy and the distance that our daily shopping travels to get to us. While Huntly is located in the rural heartland of Aberdeenshire, there are now no greengrocers trading. Lamb in the supermarkets mainly comes from New Zealand and local livestock from our fields is exported to Europe.
 
In the process of trying to lower carbon emissions on a global scale, decisions made on a local level are critical. In an exploration of food-mileage and carbon footprints, what are the personal and political relationships between people, countries, culture and food?

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